2. Voices of The Revolution
Story
Strategy
Summarize
Genre
Skill
&
Cause & Effect
Historical
Fiction 2

3. American Revolution

5. Key Vocabulary arming drilling fierce just kin peered rebels skirmish
skittish

8. Strategy Focus
What would it be like to be a Tory if your neighbors were Patriots? When you read, summarize the conflict between Katie’s family and their neighbors.

10. The reason something happens is called a cause.
The event that happens as a result is the effect.
Sometimes readers can figure out what effect an event has had by asking, “What happened because of this event?”

11. Objectives
We will:
Identify the reason something happens as the cause.
Identify something that happens as a result as the effect.
Learn academic language: Cause, effect

12. Practice Book
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13. Selection 2

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15. arming
Providing with weapons

16. drilling
doing exercises to become efficient soldiers

17. fierce
ferocious

18. Just
Honorable and fair

19. Kin
People related by blood or marriage

20. rebels
People who oppose or defy the government that exists

21. skirmish
A small, short fight between enemies

22. skittish
Nervous and jumpy

23. peered
looked at with concentration